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Ukraine Recognizes WWII-Era Nazi Collaborators as ‘Freedom Fighters’

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Veterans of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN-UPA) at the monument to Stepan Bandera during the Heroes Festival in Lviv.MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The document was signed on May 15, the Ukrainian parliament said Monday.

The UPA was established as the armed wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) in 1942. The UPA operated mainly in western Ukraine, fighting against Soviet forces on the side of Nazi Germany. In 1943, the UPA massacred as many as 100,000 Polish civilians in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.

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